If you think you can legislate teaching, the notion goes, why not try legislating parenting?
Once we've done so, the notion goes, we can then leave with a clear conscience.
Valentine, the notion goes, would never have let his players drink beer, eat fried chicken, or play video games in the clubhouse during games.
How delicious, the notion went, that a situation so fraught with high-level figures would have been treated in an advice column to a newspaper months before.
In tough economic times, the notion goes, each person might be doing something that seems perfectly sensible, like saving money instead of buying a new house.
But as Stephen Greenblatt describes in "The Swerve," this notion goes back at least to the Greek philosopher Epicurus and the poem by Lucretius that explicated his philosophy, "De Rerum Natura".
Neither notion went down well with the top ranks of the mandarinate.Putting officials in the spotlight would blow apart the tradition of confidentiality between ministers and their civil servants.
Although the notion goes against our intuition and even our common sense, we are told that smaller Texas will lead to more freedom for the average person, and thus to greater private outlays, resulting, finally, in enhanced infusions into the coffers for Texas (mostly in the form of the usual energy expenditures).
This notion goes back to 1991, when James Baker, then the U.S. Secretary of State, voiced it in a Belgrade speech.
